Özet:

The principles of professional ethics are crucial to the quality of the services they perform, which are the cause of the organization’s existence. The value and meaning of the services provided unless the professional ethics rules are met will be disputed. The importance of compliance with the principles of professional ethics is much greater for the police agency, as this agency provides security services that closely affect the quality of life of people. Furthermore, this agency is more likely to overtake this authority due to its hard-to-use authority. The positions and perceptions of the police on the ethical matters should be understood in order to improve the compliance of the ethical principles, to prevent police corruption, to improve public relations and to improve the quality of service. Despite the importance of this, the scientific field research on police ethics in our country is too little to disappear. This study was done to fill this gap in the field and the study examined the policemen's perceptions of professional ethics, the levels of assessment of unethical behaviors and the factors affecting the policemen's ethical perceptions. The data of the investigation was collected from 484 police officers in different rankings. The data was analyzed on the SPSS 17.0 program using visual statistics, t-test, ANOVA, correlation and multiple regression tests. The findings showed that the unethical behaviors that the police view as a serious problem are rarely occurring in the organization and that these behaviors are subjected to high penalties. While police’s perceptions do not differ according to gender, civic status, level of education and the state of receiving ethical education, those with higher age, age and rank perceive unethical behavior as a more serious problem.

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